Alister McGarth, Easily Dismissed
Monday, July 30th, 2007“Believing in God is like believing in Santa Clause. It’s the sort of thing that children do, but we can leave the cry baby phase behind and move on to maturity.”
Alister McGrath claims that Richard Dawkins’ analogy isn’t valid, for “how many people do you know who not believing in Father Christmas at the age of six do start believing in him at the age 18, or 35, or 50.”
I normally don’t make it a point of openly defeating such easy fallacies, but Alister McGrath supposedly knows something about this subject. Sadly, like all of his arguments in “An Analysis of The God Delusion”, this one shatters with but one short paragraph.
Christianity is not the only religion adults convert to (or away from for that matter). Type into YouTube “Islam Conversion” and see the same 18, 35, and 50 year olds converting to something completely different. If conversions into Christianity by adults inject any sort of validity into Christianity, then Islam is just as valid for it too receives its share of adult newcomers.